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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. viii, 597 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 23.5 x 16 cm. A fine, fresh copy. FIRST EDITION. Based on the North Carolina Collection at U.N.C., the work contains over 15,000 entries and remains a standard reference for North Carolina books. It is the companion volume to Thornton's “Official Publications of the Colony and State of North Carolina, 1749–1939” (1954). Mary Lindsay Thornton (1891-1973) was the first curator of the North Carolina Collection (1917-1958).�

Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. 95, [3 - index] pages. Original tan buckram with gilt spine lettering and printed paper cover label. [24 cm.] Spine sun-darkened and with a few small spots and a little speckling, minor foxing to gutters of prelims; about very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered and stamped "For Review Only" on the colophon. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, Norman W. Forgue, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "To J. L. Frazier, with the cordial regard of Norman W. Forgue." The recipient was Julius Leroy Frazier (1885-1966), who wrote and published "Modern Type Display" (1920) and "Type Lore: Popular Types of Today" (1925). Frazier also worked for a time as an associate editor at the Inland Printer Company. Norman W. Forgue (1904-1983) founded the Black Cat Press in 1932. He was responsible for the typographic design of the present volume and collaborated with the author in… Read More

New York: Arrow Editions, [1940]. 162 pages, including index. Original quarter tan cloth and gray paper covered boards with paper spine and cover labels. [25.7 cm.] A good copy. Tiny chip to spine label, not affecting lettering. Boards sunned near top edges and lightly soiled. Minor foxing to endpapers. Text block is clean, but a little age-toned. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It reads: "For Jack, The envelopes are in all the fruit trees. Always, Julian. 5/7/46.

Cleveland: For private distribution, [printed by Horace Carr], 1930. [4], 59 pages. Original quarter green morocco over marbled paper cover boards with gilt spine title. [25.7 cm.] Near fine in like jacket and slipcase. A hint of sun to the spine, slight tanning to pastedowns, dime-sized chip to lower corner of one leaf, still a nice copy. Tiny chip to head of spine panel of jacket. Small bump and tear to top of slipcase. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies printed. Holmes was the librarian of the William Gwinn Mather Library in Cleveland. His highly respected bibliography of Increase Mather's works was issued in two volumes the following year by Harvard University Press.

London: The First Editions Club, [printed by Charles Whittingham and Griggs, Ltd., Chiswick Press], 1926. Quarto. xii, 68 pages, plus thirty full-page photographic plates, some printed in color. Original maroon cloth with gilt borders and lettering; top edge gilt. [32.6 cm.] Sun-fading to spine and, to a lesser degree, outer areas of covers; light spotting and speckling to cloth. Hinges are sound and the volume shows little wear. Free endpapers a little tanned, a few minor traces of marginal foxing, light offsetting from color plates to facing pages. Near very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 600 copies, this copy unnumbered. The tenth book of the First Editions Club. Most of the bindings depicted in this volume were made in England or France and the majority date from the 16th and 17th centuries, with one 15th century binding and a few 18th-century examples. Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882-1949) was a leading authority on early English bindings and a longtime employee of Sotheby's in London.�